This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Yo if you don't know what the world means to me
Things change and rearrange
Friends aren't friends anymore
People go behind your back to score on anything
Will we ever have peace
Someone tell me please
You know you will see on the block
Kids playin hearin gunshots
Never phased by the crimes that they witness
Follow me and come and see how it got this way
Young mama right there
Don't be cussin at your kids right there
Put the right foundation right here (teach respect)
So they can be
Most high (most high)
Most high (most high)
Most high (most high)
Like an angel in the sky
Most high
Most high
Most high
Like an angel in the sky
Brother why you act that way (why you actin that way)
Call your girl woman not her name
Bringin kids in the world unclaimed
You should know that don't make you a man at all (not at all)
Young father out there (listen up)
Don't abandon your seed out there (show we care)
Let's get one thing clear (for real)
Family should be
Most high (held high)
Most high
Most high
Like an angel in the sky
Most high (it's the most)
Most high
Most high
Like an angel in the sky
It doesn't matter where you are
You're still a shining star (for real)
It doesn't matter where you're from (it doesn't matter where you're from)
Let's give love to everyone (start showin more love)
Hustlers put down your guns (put em down)
Self-respect is the best weapon
Spread love show your real value
Set a true example by starting with you
See them kids right there
Don't be shootin round them kids right there
Gotta show there is hope out here
Train yourself you can be most high
ooo ooo ooo
yeah yeah ooo
Most high (most high)
Most high
Most high
Like an angel in the sky
Most high (ooo yeah yeah)
Most high
Most high (most high)
Like an angel in the sky
It doesn't matter where you are
You're still a shining star (most high)
It doesn't matter where you're from
Let's give love to everyone
Most high (most high)
Most high
Most high
Like an angel in the sky
Most high
Most high
Most high
Like an angel in the sky
Things change and rearrange
Friends aren't friends anymore
People go behind your back to score on anything
Will we ever have peace
Someone tell me please
You know you will see on the block
Kids playin hearin gunshots
Never phased by the crimes that they witness
Follow me and come and see how it got this way
Young mama right there
Don't be cussin at your kids right there
Put the right foundation right here (teach respect)
So they can be
Most high (most high)
Most high (most high)
Most high (most high)
Like an angel in the sky
Most high
Most high
Most high
Like an angel in the sky
Brother why you act that way (why you actin that way)
Call your girl woman not her name
Bringin kids in the world unclaimed
You should know that don't make you a man at all (not at all)
Young father out there (listen up)
Don't abandon your seed out there (show we care)
Let's get one thing clear (for real)
Family should be
Most high (held high)
Most high
Most high
Like an angel in the sky
Most high (it's the most)
Most high
Most high
Like an angel in the sky
It doesn't matter where you are
You're still a shining star (for real)
It doesn't matter where you're from (it doesn't matter where you're from)
Let's give love to everyone (start showin more love)
Hustlers put down your guns (put em down)
Self-respect is the best weapon
Spread love show your real value
Set a true example by starting with you
See them kids right there
Don't be shootin round them kids right there
Gotta show there is hope out here
Train yourself you can be most high
ooo ooo ooo
yeah yeah ooo
Most high (most high)
Most high
Most high
Like an angel in the sky
Most high (ooo yeah yeah)
Most high
Most high (most high)
Like an angel in the sky
It doesn't matter where you are
You're still a shining star (most high)
It doesn't matter where you're from
Let's give love to everyone
Most high (most high)
Most high
Most high
Like an angel in the sky
Most high
Most high
Most high
Like an angel in the sky
Lyrics submitted by Xtra_Smooth
Most High Lyrics as written by Tyrice D Jones Earl Simmons
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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